Panchayat Development Index will be prepared for the Overall Development of Rural Areas | 08 Nov 2023

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On November 6, 2023, Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal announced in a meeting held in Chandigarh that the Panchayat Development Index will be prepared by the Development and Panchayat Department for the overall development of rural areas of the state.

Key Points:

• The Panchayat Development Index is being prepared for the rural areas of the state so that the goal of sustainable development can be easily achieved with all-round development plans.
• The Chief Secretary said that data will be collected for 57 services of 12 big departments, on which better development plans will be prepared.
• This Panchayat Development Index will be prepared keeping in mind the social, economic parameters and development status of the local community on the basis of the index.
• It will use a number of sectoral and sectoral indices, covering electricity, water, roads, sanitation, infrastructure, health and education services, institutions, economic and social indices including literacy and poverty rate, governance and governance, environmental sustainability.
• The development index will identify inequalities in rural communities, target sustainable development, achieve goals and formulate policies for their better lives.
• It will promote poverty-free and livelihood villages, healthy villages, child-friendly panchayats, adequate water, clean and green panchayats, self-reliant panchayats with infrastructure, social justice and safe panchayats, good governance and women-friendly panchayats.
• For this, state steering committees and district and block steering and verification committees have been formed. These committees will prepare quality data by grading the panchayats and will also plan and review it at the panchayat level.
• In this way, the data report card of every panchayat will be prepared. The data will be prepared at the panchayat level and uploaded on the Panchayat Development Index portal pdi.gov.in by December 31, 2023.
• The Chairman of the District Data Verification Team will be the Deputy Commissioner of the respective districts and the CEO of the District Council will be the Member Secretary. Apart from this, heads of 12 other district level departments have been made members, who will work on 577 local indices.
• Additional Chief Secretary of Development and Panchayat Department Anil Malik said that rehearsals have been done to collect data of panchayats of 10 villages in the state. Soon the data of all the panchayats will be collected.